UF Spring Recruitment!!

[DubaiSis]

Here's a thought: have a preference round where the chapters can invite the number of gals they want, to attend up to 3 parties (or whatever. I suppose 2 would work), and the girls rank all the chapters in descending order. Then they can attend up to 3. The houses that are looking for 5 girls would be crazy to invite 200 girls to their preference party so that should let a lot of girls down fairly gently and allow them to focus on more realistic options.

Hopefully based on their RFM history they would have a reasonable expectation of how many girls they should invite, even if they aren't following RFM to the letter. And if houses are not being cool about the number of girls they're inviting, then Panhel would have to step in the following year. But I really think now that schools see the beauty of RFM they wouldn't do anything too out of whack.

And then do a bid match with an individual quota like what Nebraska and Indiana do.

Thoughts?

[psusue]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Here's a thought: have a preference round where the chapters can invite the number of gals they want, to attend up to 3 parties (or whatever. I suppose 2 would work), and the girls rank all the chapters in descending order. Then they can attend up to 3. The houses that are looking for 5 girls would be crazy to invite 200 girls to their preference party so that should let a lot of girls down fairly gently and allow them to focus on more realistic options.

Hopefully based on their RFM history they would have a reasonable expectation of how many girls they should invite, even if they aren't following RFM to the letter. And if houses are not being cool about the number of girls they're inviting, then Panhel would have to step in the following year. But I really think now that schools see the beauty of RFM they wouldn't do anything too out of whack.

And then do a bid match with an individual quota like what Nebraska and Indiana do.

Thoughts?

This is what we did 2 years ago and I think it would have worked out well here. Unfortunately for us because we only raised total by 5 or so (plus losing a chapter, which added spaces) it was still a mess because every woman still thought that they were getting a bid from their dream chapter, when dream chapter was only doing the partially structured rush as a formality and they already had the women they wanted picked out. I think it would have worked well for UF here though.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

The houses that are looking for 5 girls would be crazy to invite 200 girls to their preference party so that should let a lot of girls down fairly gently and allow them to focus on more realistic options.

Hopefully based on their RFM history they would have a reasonable expectation of how many girls they should invite, even if they aren't following RFM to the letter. And if houses are not being cool about the number of girls they're inviting, then Panhel would have to step in the following year. But I really think now that schools see the beauty of RFM they wouldn't do anything too out of whack.

This is a happy fairy land of a post. I'm sorry to say, a lot of chapters still only do RFM because they are forced to. There are chapters out there who wouldn't blink an eye at inviting 200 girls for 5 spots, because then they can say "we had 200 girls come to our party and they knew we only had 5 spots. This is how bad girls want us."

Either all out (strictly COB on your own, no Panhel involvement) or all in (like what violetpretty has talked about Maryland doing). I think at a school this big, with a rush this big, it's hard to do otherwise. Panhel thinks you're inviting too many girls and tries to "step in"? The chapter pulls out of spring recruitment. Unless it is something as essential as fall rush, that's what's going to keep happening, until the only groups rushing are the ones who need the numbers (which is what Panhel tried to prevent in the first place).

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Here's a thought: have a preference round where the chapters can invite the number of gals they want, to attend up to 3 parties (or whatever. I suppose 2 would work), and the girls rank all the chapters in descending order. Then they can attend up to 3. The houses that are looking for 5 girls would be crazy to invite 200 girls to their preference party so that should let a lot of girls down fairly gently and allow them to focus on more realistic options.

Hopefully based on their RFM history they would have a reasonable expectation of how many girls they should invite, even if they aren't following RFM to the letter. And if houses are not being cool about the number of girls they're inviting, then Panhel would have to step in the following year. But I really think now that schools see the beauty of RFM they wouldn't do anything too out of whack.

And then do a bid match with an individual quota like what Nebraska and Indiana do.

Thoughts?

I really like the idea of giving a woman as many choices as possible, and like the idea of her receiving more than one bid. I think it evens out the "mutual" in "mutual selection."

But I can understand the uncertainties inherent when a chapter has to wait and wait to see how many bids are accepted.